OH MY GOD BEST QUIZ EVER.

[jwgh]

I suppose that theoretically some of you might disagree with that. Anyway:

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Robin Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry. My creator studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. My siblings include "Residues and Duality" (1966), "Foundations of Projective Geometry (1968), "Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties" (1970), and numerous research titles. My creator's current research interest is the geometry of projective varieties and vector bundles. He has been a visiting professor at the College de France and at Kyoto University, where he gave lectures in French and in Japanese, respectively. My creator is married to Edie Churchill, educator and psychotherapist, and has two human sons and one daughter. He has travelled widely, speaks several foreign languages, and is an experienced mountain climber. He is also an accomplished musician, playing flute, piano, and traditional Japanese music on the shakuhachi. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

Comments

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

I got the same thing. I don't know what that means, though.

[jwgh]

Oh, you and your unceasing search for meaning within the world of mathematics!

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

forget it, Jake, it's Mathematics Town.

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

holy fucking shit. you know I used to work for them (springer verlag), don't you? And Serre and Grothendieck have like, authored papers with my dad.

that's intense.

[jwgh]

I did not know that!

my results... pretty much right on.

[satedkate.livejournal.com]

You are Joe Harris's Algebraic Geometry: A First Course.

You are intended to introduce students to algebraic geometry; to give them a sense of the basic objects considered, the questions asked about them, and the sort of answers one can expect to obtain. You thus emphasize the classical roots of the subject. For readers interested in simply seeing what the subject is about, you avoid the more technical details better treated with the most recent methods. For readers interested in pursuing the subject further, you will provide a basis for understanding the developments of the last half century, which have put the subject on a radically new footing. Based on lectures given at Brown and Harvard Universities, you retain the informal style of the lectures and stress examples throughout; the theory is developed as needed. Your first part is concerned with introducing basic varieties and constructions; you describe, for example, affine and projective varieties, regular and rational maps, and particular classes of varieties such as determinantal varieties and algebraic groups. Your second part discusses attributes of varieties, including dimension, smoothness, tangent spaces and cones, degree, and parameter and moduli spaces.

[yong-mi.livejournal.com]

It is truly the bestest quiz evar!!!
And it's eery, because I've been spending a lot of time this semester thinking about measurement (although not necessarily mathematical measurement theory):
If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be J.L. Doob's Measure Theory.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

I'm An Introduction to Knot Theory, which isn't half bad, I guess.